Jabez Wilson was a white man with bright orange/red hair. He was very portly (obese, fat)
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"a very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman, with fiery red hair" with "small, fat-encircled eyes"; "portly"
Jabez Wilson wanted Sherlock Holmes to find out why the Red-Headed League [which for a while he had belonged too] has suddenly disappeared.Caroline
Sherlock Holmes knew that Jabez Wilson went to China because of the delicate pink fishes' scales in a tattoo on Wilson's right arm and a Chinese coin on his watch-chain, but the reader is not told why Wilson went to China. Perhaps it was pawnbroker's business.
Jabez Wilson- A greedy, gumball, and proud man. His greed brings him to hire an assistant at half wage. Being gullible Leeds him to accept any situation, and his pride brings him to seek an answer to a hoax.
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He is a pawnbroker and the proprietor of a small pawn shop on London's (fictional) Saxe-Coburg Square.
Jabez Wilson.
Jabez Wilson wanted Sherlock Holmes to find out why the Red-Headed League [which for a while he had belonged too] has suddenly disappeared.Caroline
Jabez Wilson was a white man with bright orange/red hair. He was very portly (obese, fat) ------ "a very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman, with fiery red hair" with "small, fat-encircled eyes"; "portly"
Sherlock Holmes knew that Jabez Wilson went to China because of the delicate pink fishes' scales in a tattoo on Wilson's right arm and a Chinese coin on his watch-chain, but the reader is not told why Wilson went to China. Perhaps it was pawnbroker's business.
Jabez Wilson- A greedy, gumball, and proud man. His greed brings him to hire an assistant at half wage. Being gullible Leeds him to accept any situation, and his pride brings him to seek an answer to a hoax.
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He is a pawnbroker and the proprietor of a small pawn shop on London's (fictional) Saxe-Coburg Square.
Jabez Wilson seeks a detective because he is perplexed by the sudden disappearance of his assistant, Vincent Spaulding, who left without explanation after helping Wilson with his business. Additionally, Wilson has become suspicious about the financial stability of his pawnbroking business, which has been negatively affected since Spaulding's departure. He hopes a detective can uncover the truth behind his assistant's actions and the mysterious circumstances surrounding his business.
Wilson did not do anything wrong. He made some extra money and improved his knowledge by reading the encyclopedia. He broke no laws in his activities.
We are not told.
Jabez Wolffe died in 1943.
Jabez Upham died in 1811.